Women Enter the Public Lives. Revision Session 2

You need to have an opinion as to whether this work really did break them out of the SEPARATE SPHERES or not!

Middle Class Women

Working Class women

What were the expectations and roles of these women in the mid to

late 19th Century?

What type of PUBLIC work did women get to do at the end of the 19th Century?

Write your ideas on your…

Women start to work in education

What did they do?

Work on School Boards

What did they do? When did they start and when did their involvement stop

Benefits and drawbacksBenefits drawbacks

Why was the government concerned about education in 1870?

Government concerns over

education

Population growth RAPID

INDUSTRIALISATION

COMPETITION FROM OTHERS

ESPECIALLY GERMANY

Women as poor law guardians.

What have these got to do with

anything?

Social conscience of the rich is awoken…..

Who am I and what did I do in 1859?

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Did it really make a massive change? What was the IMPACT?

Women in local politics: Can you match up

the following?

Women’s Llberal Association

Primorose League

•1881 in Bristol•Conservative association•1883•Ladies Grand Council•Women’s Liberal Federation in 1887•Joined to the male organization•Had a separate branch for women•Men and women equal members•Habitations held •Had a two tier membership depending on class

Did any of this really achieve anything?

Yes NoHave you got an argument for either

side? Make sure you have an opinion!!!!

Women in local politics ( municipal councils) Eleanor Rathbone Susan Lawrence Margaret Ashton Nettie Adler ?can you remember what they did?

Was it just all the separate spheres still??

Exam style questions “To what extent

were women involved in public life before 1901”

“To what extent did the “angel in the house” concept still underpin women’s contribution towards society towards the end of the 19th Century?”